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NEALE, JOHN MASON (1818–1866)

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NEALE, See also:JOHN See also:MASON (1818–1866) , See also:English divine and See also:scholar, was See also:born in See also:London on the 24th of See also:January 1818, and was educated at Trinity See also:College, See also:Cambridge. Here he was affected by the See also:Oxford See also:movement, and helped to found the See also:Camden (afterwards the Ecclesiological) Society. Though he took orders in 1841, See also:ill-See also:health prevented his settling in See also:England till 1846, when he became See also:warden of See also:Sackville College, an See also:alms-See also:house at See also:East Grinstead, an See also:appointment which he held till his See also:death on the 6th of See also:August 1866. Neale was strongly high-See also:church in his sympathies, and had to endure a See also:good See also:deal of opposition, including a fourteen years' See also:inhibition by his See also:bishop. In 1855 he founded a See also:nursing sisterhood named St See also:Margaret's. He occupies a high See also:place as a hymnologist, but principally as a translator of See also:ancient and See also:medieval See also:hymns, the best known being probably " Brief See also:life is here our portion," "To thee, 0 dear, dear See also:country," and " See also:Jerusalem, the See also:golden," which are included in the poem of See also:Bernard of See also:Cluny, De Contemptu Mundi, translated by him in full. He also published An Introduction to the See also:History of the See also:Holy Eastern Church (185o, 2 vols.); History of the so-called Jansenist Church of See also:Holland (1858); Essays on Liturgiology and Church History (1863); and many other See also:works. See Life by his daughter, Mrs See also:Charles Towle (1907) ; the Memoir by his friend, R. F. Littledale; and the Letters of John Mason Neale (1910), selected and edited by his daughter. For a See also:complete See also:list of Neale's works see See also:article in Dict. of Nat. Biog. xl.

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